USN-1022-1: APR-util vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• apr-util -

Details

It was discovered that APR-util did not properly handle memory when
destroying APR buckets. An attacker could exploit this and cause a denial
of service via memory exhaustion.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10

• libaprutil1 - 1.3.9+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• libaprutil1 - 1.2.12+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 10.10

• libaprutil1 - 1.3.9+dfsg-3ubuntu0.10.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• libaprutil1 - 1.3.9+dfsg-3ubuntu0.10.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications using
APR-util, such as Subversion and Apache, to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2010-1623

Related notices

• USN-1021-1: apache2-common, apache2.2-common, apache2